0086-138 3838 9622Soybean Extrusion Production Line in India
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overview
In 2024, RICHI Machinery delivered and commissioned a large-scale soybean extrusion production line in India, designed for a processing capacity of 1,000 tons per day and an annual output of 300,000 tons of extruded full-fat soybean meal.
We are a professional manufacturer of feed equipment, pellet production systems, biomass pellet plants, organic fertilizer machinery, and cat litter production lines. This project demonstrates our ability to engineer and implement high-capacity extrusion systems adapted to local agricultural resources and regulatory standards.
The installation is located in Madhya Pradesh, one of India’s leading soybean-producing regions. The client is a vertically integrated agribusiness investor engaged in grain trading, oilseed aggregation, and feed ingredient distribution. To capture additional value from locally sourced soybeans, the client decided to invest in a soybean extrusion production line in India to supply protein-rich feed ingredients to poultry and livestock producers across northern and central India.
The project occupies 13,768.18 m² of the client’s own industrial land. Construction was completed within 12 months. The plant includes two parallel wet-type extrusion lines, designed for stable high-throughput operation under India’s climatic and raw material conditions.
300,000 T/A
capacity
100+
investment
India
location
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project type
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Client Background and Investment Motivation
India is one of the world’s major soybean producers, especially in states such as Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. However, a large share of soybeans is exported as raw grain or processed only into oil and conventional soybean meal.
The client identified three strategic opportunities:
- Growing domestic poultry and aquaculture sectors requiring high-digestibility protein ingredients.
- Rising demand for urease-controlled, anti-nutritional-factor-reduced soybean products.
- Increasing transportation costs for importing processed protein ingredients.
By installing a high-capacity soybean extrusion production line in India, the client aimed to:
- Upgrade raw soybeans into high-value feed ingredients.
- Supply integrated poultry farms.
- Reduce reliance on solvent-extracted soybean meal.
- Achieve higher feed conversion efficiency for downstream customers.
The project capacity remains consistent with the original design:
- Daily Capacity: 1,000 tons
- Annual Capacity: 300,000 tons
- Operating Days: 300 days/year
- Working Hours: 22 hours/day
- Labor Requirement: 30 employees
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Plant Construction and Layout
The layout of this soybean extrusion production line in India was engineered for clear material flow, minimal cross-contamination, and efficient dust control.
Main Production Area
Production Workshop
- Steel structure
- 1 floor
- 1,500 m²
- Equipped with two full soybean extrusion lines
Auxiliary Structures
| Building | Area (m²) | Function |
|---|---|---|
| Warehouse #1 | 1,000 | Packaging & finished product storage |
| Warehouse #2 | 1,000 | Packaging & finished product storage |
| Warehouse #3 | 1,700 | Raw material storage |
| Steam Generator Room | 50 | Two 0.6 t/h biomass steam generators |
| General Solid Waste Room | 20 | Standard anti-seepage |
| Hazardous Waste Room | 20 | Reinforced anti-seepage |
| Office Area | 50 | Administration |
The soybean silos are positioned adjacent to the production workshop to reduce conveying distance.
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Raw Materials and Consumption
India’s soybean crop provides abundant supply in Madhya Pradesh. The project uses locally sourced soybeans purchased directly from aggregators.
Raw Materials
| No. | Material | Unit | Annual Consumption | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soybeans | t/year | 300,000 | Domestic purchase |
| 2 | Packaging bags | t/year | 650 | Domestic supplier |
| 3 | Water | m³/year | 450 | Industrial water network |
| 4 | Electricity | kWh/year | 7,000,000 | State grid |
| 5 | Biomass fuel | t/year | 3,564 | Agricultural briquettes |
Biomass fuel consists primarily of rice husk briquettes and mustard stalk pellets, commonly available in central India.
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Product Plan
| No. | Product | Unit | Annual Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Extruded Full-Fat Soybean Meal | t/year | 300,000 |
The product is widely used in:
- Broiler feed
- Layer feed
- Aquaculture feed
- Dairy cattle feed
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Core Equipment List
Crushing & Extrusion Section
| Equipment | Quantity | Model |
|---|---|---|
| Feed bucket elevator | 2 | DTG36/28 |
| Screw conveyor | 6 | XLSS20/25 |
| Permanent magnetic drum | 2 | TCXT25 |
| Rotary level indicator | 4 | ZXL-1 |
| Twin-rotor hammer mill | 2 | SFSP-S66×50 |
| Pulse dust collector | 2 | TBLMa.48 |
| Wet-type grain extruder | 2 | HDEP300 |
| Steam generator | 2 | 0.6 t/h biomass |
| Water circulation system | 2 | — |
| Induced draft fans | 4 | — |
Cooling & Packaging Section
| Equipment | Quantity | Model |
|---|---|---|
| Flap cooler | 2 | 20×20 |
| Cyclone | 2 | — |
| Cooling fan | 2 | — |
| Bucket elevator | 4 | DTG36/28 |
| Five-roller crumbler | 2 | YPSG35×125 |
| Automatic packing system | 2 | LCS50 |
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Production Process Description
This soybean extrusion production line in India adopts a wet extrusion process designed to reduce urease activity and destroy anti-nutritional factors.
1. Raw Soybean Unloading
Soybeans are unloaded into receiving pits and conveyed to silos.
2. Magnetic Separation
Permanent magnetic drums remove iron impurities.
3. Crushing
Twin-rotor hammer mills reduce particle size to optimize conditioning.
4. Conditioning
Steam at 115±5°C is injected.
Outlet material temperature: 90±5°C.
5. Wet Extrusion
Moisture: 12–16%
Temperature: 100–140°C
Effectively reduces trypsin inhibitor and urease activity.
6. Cooling & Drying
Material cooled from approx. 90°C to safe storage moisture.
7. Crumbling
Five-roller crumbler breaks agglomerates.
8. Automatic Packing
50 kg woven bags.
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Logistics and Shipping
All equipment was shipped by sea from Qingdao Port, China to Nhava Sheva Port (Jawaharlal Nehru Port), India.
Delivery time: 45 days.
Installation period: 5 months.
Commissioning: 30 days
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Future Outlook of Soybean Extrusion Production Line in India
India’s livestock and poultry industries are expanding rapidly. Demand for high-quality protein feed ingredients continues to rise.
Advantages of investing in a soybean extrusion production line in India include:
- Abundant soybean supply
- Competitive labor costs
- Expanding poultry integration
- Government support for agro-processing
From a technical perspective, extrusion improves digestibility and eliminates anti-nutritional factors, making it superior to conventional soybean meal.
From a commercial perspective, value-added extrusion increases profit margins compared to raw grain trading.
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Why Choose RICHI Machinery?
- Complete turnkey engineering
- Custom process design
- Competitive equipment pricing
- Proven global installations
- Experienced overseas commissioning teams
- Reliable spare parts supply
This soybean extrusion production line in India demonstrates our ability to deliver large-scale, stable, and economically viable extrusion systems tailored to regional agricultural strengths.
If you are considering investing in a soybean extrusion production line in India or in your own country, RICHI Machinery provides professional engineering solutions from concept to commissioning.
We design for efficiency.
We build for durability.
We engineer for long-term profitability.
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● Consulting
Customer Consultation
We want to have a deep understanding of your industrial process, to know your exact needs of feed, wood, biomass, fertilizer or other pellet processing.
● Design
Extrusion Plant Design
Based on your unique situation and industrial process, we will tailor complete pellet plant you need, and inform you of every additional detail that could facilitate operation, minimize total cost.
● Manufacturing
Equipment Manufacturing
The critical components of the of the complete pellet production line equipment are built in our own workshops in Asia. Additional equipment is manufactured by our worldwide network of reliable partners.
● Testing
Quality Inspection & Testing
Before leaving the factory, all equipment will be inspected by the quality inspection department. We can also provide customers with testing services from a single machine to a complete pellet plant system, and provide you with real actual data for “worry-free use.”
● Delivery
Equipment Delivery
In equipment boxing and packaging, we adopt professional packaging and modular solutions to ensure the safe and non-destructive delivery of pellet plant equipment.
● Installation
Installation & Commissioning
Whether you choose your own subcontractor for the erection phase or you want to install everything together with us, a Richi supervisor will be around to make sure everything is mounted in a safe and thorough way.
● Training
Staff Training
We provide comprehensive training for the technicians of each project. We can also continue to provide support for the technicians during latter project operation.
● After-sales
Project Follow-Up
When everything is up and running our Richiers will help you further whenever needed. We are ready to answer your call 24/7.We’ll also visit you regularly to learn about your needs.
Who we are
RICHI Machinery is one of the world’s leading suppliers of technology and services for the animal feed, aqua feed and pet food industries, also the largest pellet production line manufacturer in China.
Since 1995, RICHI’s vision to build a first-class enterprise, to foster first-class employees, and to make first-class contributions to society has never wavered.
In the past three decades, we have expanded our business to a wide range of areas, including animal feed mill equipment, aqua feed equipment, pet feed equipment, biomass pellet equipment, fertilizer equipment, cat litter equipment, municipal solid waste pellets equipment, etc.
1995
RICHI Established
2000+
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120+
RICHI Employees
140+
Exported To 140 Countries
